Thursday, March 06, 2008

Sea Leaf

This was extremely pleasant to spin with. As you can see in the first picture, the fiber separated easily into two strands ( Well not for me. I was sitting on the sofa all tangled up in the separated mess, and clever as I think I am, I started to divide from the other end, thinking this would help, but it didn't. Son to the rescue. He untangled me in no time, and I gave him the last colorways, still waiting to be spun to divide for me.)

This blend (which is actually merino, tencel, sea cell) is used for sock yarn, but I don't think I'll knit socks with my skein. Don't know yet what it will be. I'm getting tired of only having 4oz of anything, and to come up with clever ways to find a suitable pattern for it.

I think this colorway came out very lovely. It's cooling effect, just looking at it, makes me happy. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, usually I have singles left on one bobbin, but this time they were quite even spun. At the end I had 1 inch on one bobbin left! How cool is that?

It's beautiful *blink* *blink* I like how you showed the fiber plys separating - I feel closer to understanding how this process begins. 4 oz. I never pay attention to weights - does that make a pair of socks? If not, why do they sell the roving in such small quantities. Yeah for David's help!

beautiful! That is a great feeling when you find the bobbins to have an almost equal amount. I love colors.

I want to try some of that pencil roving too. But I'm with oyu on the 4oz thing. I'm oging to spend this weekend goign through the fiber and seeing if there art any fibers I can combine together instead of spinning them seperate.

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I live in Canada now, but I'm originally from Austria.
My White Shepherd Happy, and Denny the mutt, are my constant companions. Maggie is my sons dog, but she's with me most of the day. I have two grown kids too ;o) by the way.